Posts Categorized: Mandy’s School News

Math, Reading and Writing Workshops in The Jet’s Kindergarten classroom…  Math Workshop: putting numerical cards in order. Writing pattern books. Back to back partner reading in Reader’s Workshop. 

 Dinosaur Center!   In the Name Center using tracing cards and name cards with dry erase markers to learn how to write our friend’s names.   In Math Center playing Roll and Record, a new popular dragonfly math game

The Pre-k Bees started their new science unit on animals!  They watched “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt” on their class iPad. Then, they mentioned the animals they saw on the video- a bear! a dog! Then they predicted what animals we would see if we were to take a walk around their neighborhood here in Brooklyn.. […]

This month the 2-year-old Ladybugs are studying colors! Yesterday and today they created their own “little blues” (like the character from the book “Little Blue and Little Yellow”). 

The 10-Question Teacher Interview for Brevoort Office Manager , Mariana Valencia 1. How long have you been working at The Co-op School? “I have worked here on and off since 2009.” 2. What’s your favorite part of being part of The Co-op School? “I am very lucky to actually love where I work because I find […]

The Ladybugs have been talking about the different ways people can participate in their community. Zara’s dad, Khem, invited us to see his community garden. This morning, the Ladybugs took a small trip to the 100 Quincy Street community garden in Bed Stuy. They got to smell, taste and touch different vegetables in the garden and visited the 5 […]

For the Bee’s yearlong community service focus, the Bumblebees will be exploring the endangered honeybee. To launch the study they had a bee farmer come in today to tell them all about the honeybee. they learned about honeybees. Here is some of what they learned: There is a Queen Bee (female), the worker bees (females) […]

Kicking off their Community unit for the month of November, the 2 year-old Ladybugs have been working together to paint their fort/house with paint brushes and rollers. Every morning they have been practicing sorting color objects into bins and mixing colors together to see what would happen.

The Firefly Postal Service all stemmed from an activity during which they discussed the idea of how and why they write letters to friends.  After the discussion, the Fireflies worked in small groups to write letters while the rest of the class was on the playground.  After working with the first group, it was amazing […]